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Anthony_Vaz_547
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Feb 10, 2010

Is this a bad idea...

Hi guys   Curious on your thoughts on this please?     We traditionally have a setup where we may have web application servers and database servers in our corporate network.   ...
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hoolio
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Feb 10, 2010
Hi Anthony,

 

 

Without native character and path normalization functionality (or user-defined functions?) in iRules, I don't think it's a good idea to try to use iRules to perform HTTP security validation. It's quite simple to bypass most iRule URI validation with encoding/directory traversal attacks. See this post for details:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=3090031324

 

 

ASM can definitely provide good validation and protection. But I don't think iRules should be depended on for now for this scenario.

 

 

Aaron